Oakland Coliseum

The Oakland Coliseum was the longtime home of the Athletics, a circular, multi-purpose concrete bowl that once housed both baseball and football and became one of the last of its kind still in use in the majors. Its cavernous foul territory and the mid-1990s upper-deck addition known as "Mount Davis" gave it a look unlike any modern ballpark, for better and for worse. In its later years the building earned a reputation for stripped-down, no-frills baseball, with tarped-off upper sections and a die-hard fan base that stuck around through years of stadium uncertainty. It remains a symbol of an earlier era of multipurpose stadiums before the A's departed Oakland.

Opened in 1966 for both the Athletics (who arrived from Kansas City in 1968) and the NFL's Raiders, the Coliseum anchored Oakland sports for over half a century. The A's won three straight World Series there from 1972-74, then returned to glory with the late-1980s "Bash Brothers" era of Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, capped by the 1989 World Series title over the crosstown Giants, played partly at the Coliseum during the earthquake-interrupted "Bay Bridge Series." The stadium also hosted the Raiders through two stints and was long considered one of the last true dual-purpose venues in American pro sports. The A's played their final season at the Coliseum in 2024 before relocating, closing the book on nearly six decades of Oakland baseball there.